First and foremost, Paul is still for all intents and purposes a Beatle—which automatically makes him preferable to Hubert Humphrey or Judy Garland under just about any grid of analysis you'd be likely to name. Second, the great Willie Nelson became the first country singer per se to cut a Beatle song and the one he chose back in '66 or so was of all things "Yesterday," proof that some people besides boobs and assflames actually dig that 4th-rate garbage of his. Third, well I dunno … y'gotta admit the reviews're still basically mixed … 30 years from now when he's the Maurice Chevalier of his generation and he's on the Johnny Carson Show talkin' about how swell it's been, then is when we'll be able to judge whether close to a lifetime of puke has been justified in any sense of the word. (p. 98)